Technics and Time, 3 furthers Stiegler's critique of technics, working (back) through Kant in order to examine the nature of cinematic time relative to phenomenology and hypertechnology.
Bernard Stiegler Books
April 1, 1952 – August 5, 2020
Bernard Stiegler is a philosopher whose work interrogates the complex relationship between technology, time, and human experience. He explores how technological advancements shape our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world, urging a critical engagement with the tools that define modern existence. Stiegler's philosophical inquiries delve into the very nature of memory, knowledge, and the future of generations, offering profound insights into the challenges and possibilities of our digital age.
States of Shock - Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century
- 200 pages
- 7 hours of reading
In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness.
In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age.
Iinfluential French Philosopher Bernard Stiegler lays out his thinking on capitalism, technology and culture and his Ars Industrialis organisation.
Symbolic Misery, Volume 2
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms a 'katastroph of the sensible'.
Automatic Society - Volume 1, the Future of Work
- 280 pages
- 10 hours of reading
In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years.
Technics and Time, 2
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Technics and Time 2: Disorientation continues Stiegler's interrogation of prosthetic and ortho-thetic memory in light of the crisis that arises when speed and delay are irreconcilable, the crisis of human being itself.
Stiegler is one of the most original and important philosophers and cultural theorists in France today. * His work is at the interface of philosophy and technology, so would appeal not only to those studying Philosophy, but media and cultural studies, and literary studies.
Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature with man-made objects, which did not have the source of production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own.
Acting Out brings together two short books (the autobiographical I>How I Became a Philosopher and To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us) by Bernard Stiegler, the fruit of the discipline he developed in prison and of the passion he brings to his political, philosophical, and technical diagnoses of contemporary life.
